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• I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

  Kate Mara

  Water, Roles, Ridiculous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Doors, Swim

  "Wolf Files: Celebrity Phobias" by Buck N.Wolf, abcnews.go.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

  Tori Amos

  Death, Obsession, Obsessed

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• I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Chemistry

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1933). “Unpublished Letters”

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• More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

  Bruce Schneier

  Pigs, Years, People

  Bruce Schneier (2006). “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World”, p.29, Springer Science & Business Media

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• You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

  Jim Howick

  Looks, Fins, Ominous

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

  Adam West

  Hands, Bats, Spray

  "Fictional character: Batman". "Batman: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

  Gary Larson

  Men, Water, Perspective

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• We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, People, Matter

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.

  Renzo Gracie

  Land, Tanks, Meals

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• Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

  Sara Zarr

  Memories, Fear, Thinking

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• I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man.

  Rick Yancey

  Eye, Men, Drawing

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.307, Penguin

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• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life Sucks, Life Is Like, Littles

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

  Damien Hirst

  Liquid, Imagine, Enough

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• Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

  Jeremy Piven

  Reality, Opposites, Midwest

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• There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

  Brian Skerry

  Ocean, Thinking, People

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• I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Art, House, Want

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• Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

  David Gest

  Thinking, Looks, Knows

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• We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lifeboats, Has Beens

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Player, Sea, Water

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Family, Mother

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• I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Ocean, Book

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

  Laini Taylor

  People, Fetus, Imagine

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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